Many used that exact phrase, while others threw in overheated words like "garbage," "crap," dumpster fire," and a few choice phrases that I can't repeat here. A slightly smaller camp had no particular problem with Windows 10 but preferred Windows 7. Just under half of this group praised Windows 7 because "it just works. A slightly larger group said they believe "Windows 7 is better than Windows A word that appeared over and over again was "control," especially in the context of security updates.
More on that in a minute. I was surprised that so many people chose this option, especially when the Windows 10 upgrade is still free. For details, see "Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade. The most poignant example came from a reader in Iran, who said, "In Iran we have a bad situation" and the cost of the upgrade was too high. An unsurprising number of people expressed their extreme displeasure with "forced updates," "buggy updates," and the "feature churn" with twice-yearly updates.
Get Windows Are you looking for Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro? Not sure? Learn more about Windows 10 versions at Microsoft. Read More. Continuing the theme of loss of control, another person said, "I own my computer and decide when to update, not Microsoft. I was just a bit surprised that this number was so low, but what they lacked in numbers, this group made up for in Not everyone who responded to the survey was dismissive of the idea of upgrading.
Some of them are made for power users like arch linux but there are a lot of linux distros made for newbees like ubuntu, linux mint, zorin, opemSUSE, manjaro etc. I suggest start with ubuntu and switch to manjaro later if you want but ubuntu is the way to go.
I currently use manjaro XFCE 0. Linux has a welcoming community and I personally love the linux mint forums the most. Why cant developers just leave well enough alone.
On XP everything was so so simple. W7 is just plain stupidity. Through these superficial changes and increase of memory footprint Microsoft can present a new version of Windows as a brand new product and not just a service pack, which customers would expect to receive for free. Bigger is better. A number of good points have been expressed by the author. I agree with most, particularly about memory consumption on disk and at runtime. The 2. For some reason, nobody has a problem with that. They keep coming up with complex methods to speed up booting, when what is really needed is to slim down the size of the system, so that there is less to load.
For tasks such as browsing picture file and searching it is best to install 3rd party tool, which you can learn once, and then keep using on your new computer, under a new operating system. Take, for example, the search function. Seven has even more of those virtual directories. Turns out that I need to relax a number of non-intuitive filters to have the search function look into system folders. This was particularly apparent with large video files.
For search and file management I use Total Commander. That is how Windows should have been too. Other people rely on plugins such as TeraCopy to aid file management. Total Commander can search for these criteria and more, such as date range and contents in different encodings. Indexing is the first thing I disable in XP installations. In Seven, it is more tightly integrated, which is disappointing. Going over gigabytes of data trying to anticipate my search queries is not something I need from the OS, because I hardly ever search for English words in text documents.
Search is a nice addition. The old Start menu of Windows 4. You could use as much screen space to view it as needed. All they needed to improve upon it was to add an inconspicuous search box somewhere. Slow Management Console! The damn thing is written in NET Framework. Access Permissions on system files that cannot be removed.
Upon slimming down the system I stopped at the service called ReadyBoost. I stopped and disabled it, but it left behind a file called readyboot. It cannot be deleted. It is 2 MB, so not that big of a deal. I was able to read this file in direct disk access mode in WinHex.
The Start menu is able to display certain directories in flyout menu format: Favorites, Computer, and Control Panel among others. But for programs one must scroll through the box. Items on them can be dragged and right-clicked. I know there is Classic Shell. But if it can be done without extra memory consumption and complexity, I prefer to go that route. The program uses around KB of memory, and must be loaded the whole time. Excellent grumpy bear, Agree with everything here……Windows 7 sux.
Sticking with XP even unsupported its the most stable and sensible OS they have made, probably by mistake??
I seem to have managed to make W7 behave reasonably well and look more or less like XP. I am not as dissatisfied as I once was. There still are countless mind-numbing things, like the goofy security prompt that has asked me now for perhaps the th time whether I want to run a particular program. Each time that pops up, it reminds me of how silly and useless that is.
Then there is the incompetent diddling with the file system display, the explorer interface, where someone apparently thought the one in XP was too useful. I only use explorer occasionally though, mostly using a character-based browser Ztree. I have been taking a programming course where the machines are running W8. Now that is genuinely a great leap backwards. Apparently W7 could be made to be somewhat useful with a lot of tweaks and that may be possible on W8 , but things like deciding to make the up arrow in the now mostly useless explorer so faint and small as to look like a screen smudge leaves me with my mouth agape.
Ah yes, that pointless user access control thing that prompts you everytime you launch a non Microsoft app. Next time it happens, click the link in the popup box that lets you change the setting and you can switch the damn thing off. Yet the learning curve is so out of the ordinary your productivity almost grinds to a halt. I feel sorry for any organization that upgraded and had a fleet of employees that had to learn how to use this OS.
Planned Obsolescence, Planned Regress etc. Boycott all those products and corporations that are regressive. I blame this one squarely on Balmer, if his Billness had been in charge, I doubt Windows 7 would have turned out to be the travesty that it is. In the end, I gave it to a vendor to reformat it and install XP. I went to pick it up and it was done. However, when I got home, I noticed that the vendor had changed my hard disk. Being as I had taken out an extended 3-year warranty when I bought the notebook I took it back to the shop.
To cut a long story short, they gave me a choice — 1. When you install Windows 7 as a download, it asks you which version to install for the licence key you have.
Go to a repair shop where they know what they are doing. Installing and booting XP can be a challenge, but the difficulty is the same with any hard drive. It is the components on the motherboard, such as the disk controller, which might not have the right drivers. If you experience network speed issues, use a program called TCP Optimizer. Home differs from ultimate only in that some non-essential, superfcial features are disabled. Both versions are installed from the same source medium.
I just spent two weeks building a custom Windows 7 install on a Sony Vaio Notebook for a friend. I went out of my way to replicate the look and feel of Windows XP with classic interface and configured for performance ……I dis so much Google searching for answers to little annoyances that I went cross-eyed!
Here are the insights I gained from this effort: [1] Windows 7 IS A BAD replacement for Windows XP if you are a dead-serious business-like computer user who needs to conduct fine-grained operations on hierarchical structure, text and details. When my hardware starts dying in a couple of years, I will look at the open-source operating systems for salvation. How anyone thought shutting down everything with no notice or a chance to save your document was a good idea is beyond comprehension.
That person deserves a dozen back-handed bitch slaps to the face on a daily basis. To be fair, you can switch it off with Windows Updates to only install outside normal office hours but I think those bitch slaps are still well deserved.
I seemed to have switched that off in some way, though it is nearly impossible to get rid of the message that you need to reboot. I turn off the automatic update process to kill that for a while, but it restarts itself like some 50s monster movie character.
Microsoft is often credited with having intelligent people working there, but it is very hard to see how someone could have concluded such a thing given the number of laughably stupid things they put their time into creating.
To turn off Windows Update for good, you also need to stop the service under Administrative Tools in control panel. I never switch on Windwos Update, all it does it waste CPU cycles and bandwidth downloading crap in the background that nobody really needs.
Security updates? All you need is to install a good firewall, virus checker and malware checker. Absolutely no need for so called critical updates that cater for a minute section of remotely plausible use cases which most people will never ever go near. Of course these updates have great potential of causing system instability.
What if I have swapped out a component and the update depended on it? Bingo, your answer turned up. I feel a little better knowing that it is not just me. Why does contemporary man insist upon making simple things cumbersome and more complicated then they need be?
Just once I would like to be able to purchase a computer with only a few items that I want instead of being inundated with useless baggage that, espeically in the W7 case lead to mulitple flusterclucks! Great, I figured, just go back a couple of months prior to when it was still running fine. System restore gave me one date! I could not create a restore date either, so, that has brought me to smashing the dam thing, rebooting or going to a Mac! Oh man, System Restore is about as useful as an underwater umberella.
Best to just switch this crap off and regain both your disk space and sanity. I sent back a Lenova laptop and a Dell desktop — both purely on the OS sucking.
I went to a Mac Book Pro. It took a bit of time as I had tons of digital images and they wanted me to put them in 1Photo which basically lost my images somewhere within the computer. Otherwise a question might arise, why should one pay for windows again if it feels mostly the same as the previous version.
Couldnt agree with you more.. You know, international version of Windows 7 sucks far worse! Oh and I am curious how the 16 reasons you named will work out in Windows 10, e.
But I guess we will have to use 3rd party tools again to find what we are looking for…. I suggest everyone try this OS. Windows blows. Windows 7 sucks. In contrast, the work build of XP was a fleet footed gazelle compared to this lumbering, plodding Windows 7 pile of shite. I hate to have to use 7 forever.
Because 8 and 10 are duds. So fast and easy. We are doomed overwhelmed by dishonest manufacturers and to add insult to injury and infection, we are being sprayed with chemtrails on top of our heads from airplanes. Take a look at the sky, what you see is persistent and spreading chemical trails and chemical clouds. XP followed the visual simplicity, clarity and point and click of Macs that made Steve Jobs and Apple so successful.
But then, MSoft realized it was at the end of the road and there was not much more it can do with an OS. So it had to come up with ways to keep selling the same OS over and over to keep making money. So it had to put the old wine in new colored bottles. They are neither easy nor user friendly. They are full of new bugs, and mutilated and disabled and disarranged i.
Many basic features are hidden away and takes a while to search and find them. Toolbars with Icons, the sine-qua-non of a GUI have been removed. What I could do in minutes in XP often takes hours in Windows 7. Most screens are so huge, but empty and filled with white space, I cannot see the buttons at the bottom to click OK or Cancel. The vertical scroll bars have been disabled. The task bar will not stay down!
It keeps coming back up bug. Basic functions that could be done in clicks in XP take an hour to find and clicks to access, as they are buried deep and in confusing places.
Even the close and minimize buttons have disappeared in Windows 8. So you cannot even close a window in Windows 8. And of course, Windows 7 and later are full of many new bugs. Windows 7 crashes all the time, which XP almost never did. I spend an hour changing some settings, but a month later, it loses it. Vista and Windows 7 and later versions were, as if, built by a madman who takes a normal car XP , smashes the dashboard and puts a shiny plate to cover it up, puts the brake pedal in the trunk and the gas pedal under the back seat and the steering behind.
Why did they do that? Well, it is a racket to make money. Knowing that there is nothing more to design compared with XP, they had to find a way to keep making money. So the only way they can make it seem new is to make it somehow different—by disabling basic features. Microsoft even purchased Skype and destroyed it. The window is so huge, it does not even fit on the computer, though it is mostly empty white space, but the scroll bars are removed.
The text is so tiny, you cannot even read. Buttons, text boxes and labels are all made to look alike, so I am not sure if it something clickable button or something I can type into text box or it is just telling me something label. Solution: Stick with XP or get Linux. Microsoft needs to be sued for fraud and racketeering. People should contact attorneys and state attorney generals and complain and inquire about filing class action lawsuits. George, I agree with everything you wrote.
Vista was the beginning of the end of Windows. They should have improved on XP and left the interface alone. And now they are moving to a cloud Windows. Gates blew it when he let these modern people change a easy going OS that was XP. Microsoft you suck. MSFT is in bed with intel. In Windows XP we could have our icons and picture view at the same time. Not with dumb down 7 though. You have to choose one or the other. Why did they change that. I liked when all my folders were in My Documents.
I have been confused as to how MS managed to write a directory listing routine that is laughably slow. WTF are they doing? Once again tonight I tried to get a simple directory listing using Explorer. I should probably just move over to Linux and be done with it.
I could just run XP in a virtual machine there for those few things that have a Windows only solution. Intel proves their partnership with Microsoft quite clearly when they refuse to provide drivers for previous versions of Windows: AHCI disk controllers now available after a long delay , USB 3, integrated graphics, and by making their drivers incompatible with PAE, which would extend the life of bit systems.
No doubt their intention is to force people to update Windows, which in turn would require purchasing of additional modern hardware. It all has to do with numerology. Back in the old days, Pythagoras discovered a law where you reduce compound numbers to a single digit by adding them.
And somehow, obeying this law leads to magical properties, such as increased public consumption of an Operating System. Let me illustrate…. Windows XP had a kernel version of NT5. So according to Pythagoras, 5. Let us call Windows XP, Windows version 6.
Next came Vista, with its kernel version NT6. Again, we numerologically obtain 6. So, Vista also turns out to be Windows version 6. Next was Windows 7, bundled with kernel version NT6. Windows 7 is said to be a harmonious OS where numerology is concerned. Know why? Hint hint. So after Windows 8. Another harmonious system! NET framework version that comes with W NET 4. So 6 is actually the 7th digital in computing. Oops, there was a goofup. Windows 8. The current trend is to make the version number bigger than the competition.
Hell, 22 and 27 are mostly the same. Seven was tweaked, updated not necessarily improved version of Windows 6, which was a radical new development with new boot loader, new driver model, rehashed security permissions, new bugs, new hardware requirements, and many issues as a result.
People learned to accept the NT 5 and NT 6 platforms, and Microsoft used a catchy name to differentiate the latest releases as new products, even though on a basic level they are very similar.
Microsoft is forcing me to sign up for a Microsoft account in order to use certain applications such as Skype etc. At the same time Microsoft is blocking me from signing up with the…. Microsoft account and giving me hard time, such as empty green screens etc. Windows 7 is a sneaky SOB. I completely agree, fuck Microsoft. My file folders have useless pictures instead of file details. My Windows 7 backup will not fully restore, or install anything where it should be, so I need to figure out a manual workaround for every file.
I really hate Microsoft. Am I just paranoid, or are they forcing us to arrange our work, our thoughts, our lives into a neat database for them, which we will be forced to upload to their cloud, and pay them to allow us to access it? I love a messy desktop. I thrive on connecting unrelated data and images and processes.
Windows 10 will also be the last Windows release. This means no more licences, Microsoft wants you to pay perpetual fees for Windows and all future updates.
I almost managed to restore the taskbar to win2k functionality with this program. It uses less than 1 MB of memory. Of course, you could at it another way and say that now Windows needs to waste an entire megabyte. I hate the cloud. I think their is always an inclination to overestimate the competence of a group like Microsoft rather than just concluding they are a bunch of idiots. I am not generous enough to think that anyone who thought that was a good idea has a clue.
In any case, they seem to be doing a good job of driving their users away, and perhaps that is their goal. You forgot reason Windows 7 pro desire to reinstall updates every day.
A PC that can run a all those little apps and saervices should be able to check and see if a recommended update is required because if it already there it does not need reinstall. A fellow sufferer. Linux Mint is the best option. It installs quick, recognises all my devices and is much faster than Win7 on even modest hardware. The standard build with integrated SP1 works just fine. Most of those so-called critical updates are just an excuse for Microsoft to shove even more junk onto your PC.
Most Linux games are nothing better then phone apps like Candy Crush and in some cases worse that make a phone app seem polished. Goat Simulator would be the best it can do or Garbage Truck Simulator. You forgot to tell why the taskbar sucks. Of course everybody turns off the combined buttons and gets back separate buttons with text on them. But then, the color of the text often makes it hard to read. The color cannot be changed, so when you prefer a bright theme with a bright background image, you cannot read the text.
Furthermore the button of the window ehich has the focus is hard to spot because it is only slightly brighter than the other buttons. This, combined with the mouse hover highlight, causes lots of mistakes when switching quickly between windows. I have not seen any other person complain about the taskbar colors yet. I see that the color of a taskbar button is determined by the icon, so different programs get different colors.
I often raise and lower a window a few times before I can find it on the screen. FU windoz. Saves all the cussing. The network services change radically with every Windows version. I also find the error messages to often be misleading. For example, they may report that access was denied i.
In the meantime good FTP server software, adhering to standards, works with OS and clients a decade or more old. I set up FileZilla on all network-connected Windows computers, to have a backup means of file transfer and a method to diagnose speed and connectivity problems. I honestly never liked Windows XP. Better still, creating your own slipstreamed XP installation with all customisation, updates and drivers is a snap.
My XP installation boots in under 10 seconds from a cold start on a fast drive which is as quick as Windows 7 on an SSD. Well I love using XP.. You are just one of those XP downers. All versions of Windows had problems upon release because the developer changed them radically, and used resource-demanding visual effects relative to previous products and contemporary hardware , both trying to impress customers who already had a computer with an operating system. Of course everyone knows about Vista.
Of course if you never changed your problematic drivers to ones made for XP, then the problems would stay. It cannot be denied that Microsoft Windows tries to do more with every version, particularly in the area of multimedia like video file playback , which was covered by usually more efficient 3rd party applications earlier.
Those feautures come at a cost of performance, regardless whether users want them or not. And yes they do insiste because they withdraw support from XP which was a perfectly good OS. The reason is that they want to make even more money from us simple as that! As for Windows 7, I cannot run Windows updates which is a pretty basis function, and looking at various Internet post I am not alone. I should have bought an Apple computer!
I haven't had problems anything like yours. As far as I'm concerned, Windows 7 was fine and Windows 8 even better. If you had problems with a Windows 7 computer, almost certainly they were hardware problems, driver problems, application problems, or malware-- not Windows 7 problems. Was this reply helpful? The real problem is that you are moving from a version of Windows that was developed 13 years ago to one that was developed 5 years ago.
This means that you have 8 years worth of technology and changes to learn. When you run into a problem, or need information about a particular function, simply start a new Question Thread on one of our Windows 7 forums and provide the complete details about the problem.
This feature is quite useful. However, Windows 10 changes its update strategy and always forces you to update to the latest version and install the latest patches. Microsoft does this thing to let you get the best features available every time. Nevertheless, according to critics, this is a strategy of Microsoft to cover up a design flaw in the operating system so that it can fix any obvious problem without the user's knowledge.
If the company is better at avoiding update problems, the mandatory updates could be easier to accept. Why is Windows 10 so bad? In addition to the above bad two things, Windows 10 sucks also because of its unusable Start Menu search. Additionally, some users said that they typed cal to the search box and the Calculator app appears but the app disappeared when typing calc.
It is said that several other apps have the same case, which makes it difficult to use the quick search feature. Are you troubled by the issue Windows Search not working? Try these 6 reliable solutions to fix Windows Search problem. When you install every app, even a broken app or incomplete installation, Windows 10 keeps a file of such an app, making the PC messy.
If you are looking for a method to fix broken registry items, this post is what you want. It will introduce you 5 methods to repair this problem. Your computer may have come preloaded with a series of features and programs that you never heard of or used, for example, the garbage-tier games like Candy Crush. Uninstalling these apps is only a temporary fix since they always will be installed again after major updates. Additionally, Windows 10 also shows you sponsored ads and you can do nothing to this.
But this is normal for Microsoft. So, Windows 10 sucks in this aspect. Windows 10 is garbage because of its bad design. In Windows 10, Microsoft combined the looks of Windows 8 and 7, for example, refreshed the Start menu and notifications, canceled the Charms menu, etc.
But a number of design inconsistencies across the UI are caused by the combination of functions and styles. Modern Windows applications differ greatly in appearance from classic Windows.
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